Peter Drysdale is Emeritus Professor of Economics, Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and Editor-in-Chief of East Asia Forum in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. He is widely acknowledged as the intellectual architect of APEC. He is the author of a large number of books and papers on East Asian and Pacific economic cooperation and international trade and economic policy, including the prize-winning International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific. He is recipient of the Asia Pacific Prize, the Cosmopolitan Prize, the Weary Dunlop Award, the Order of the Rising Sun, the Australian Centenary Medal, and the Order of Australia.